Buggin' out

April 05, 2007|By L.A. DAILY NEWS.

Most actors like buzz, but not this kind of buzz.

In a scene toward the end of "The Reaping," the town of Haven--and most of its residents--is covered top to bottom in swarming locusts. Many of the bugs were created via computers, but nearly 20,000 of them were real--and not especially popular among the cast.

"Huge things, man. They were horrible," said Idris Elba, who had to plunge his hands into a crate full of the critters. "There's one scene where I'm literally throwing them at the crew, and they were all laughing at me."